Human beings want to live in a state of happiness and prosperity, but happiness is important
not just for the well-being of individuals but for the well-being of society. To ensure the …

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly. A particular
counting approach to multidimensional poverty measurement, developed by Sabina Alkire …

This chapter critically reviews the existing knowledge on livelihoods, poverty, and
vulnerability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). Development in mountain areas and the …

This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index
combines monetary and non‐monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut‐offs for certain …

Target 7c of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 7c) aimed to halve the population that
had no sustainable access to water and basic sanitation before 2015. According to the data …

This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional
inequality and poverty. It first outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional …

Poverty has probably always been understood as a multidimensional problem, yet
traditionally it has been measured with one dimension: income. 1 The assumption was that …

The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has been an important contribution to the debate
on national and international poverty measurement. With the creation of the global MPI …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures, such as the global-MPI and the MPI-LA,
use the household as the unit of analysis, which means that the multidimensional poverty …

Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which
monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non‐monetary measures remains unresolved …